We were lucky enough to have a friend of mine give us some beautiful stripy caterpillars and one cocoon. Within days we were watching with bated breath to see what would happen to our four cocoons.

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And then it happened...
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We learned lots of things from watching and observing real butterflies and were proud to let them go onto our class garden.


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Miss Lowson even had to pick one up. She learned that butterflies have feet that cling!


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We then learned about butterflies and caterpillars here are our stories.

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We learned that butterflies have long straw like tongues that they drink the nectar with, so we made our own and had a go. Very clever butterflies!

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We also learned about caterpillars. Here are our findings...

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